3D-printed objects change color on demand

A ColorFab ring is made to appear blue/red, yellow, and red Imagine if you could recolor your smartphone case or other accessories, to match what you were wearing on any given day. Well, it may eventually be possible, thanks to research being conducted at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Scientists there have created a new system that allows the color of 3D-printed objects to be changed repeatedly, after they’ve been created. The system is known as ColorFab, and here’s how it works … When items are printed using the new technology, they’re made up of voxels […]